Actually, for a while AOL was encouraging people to use its servers, in an attempt to gain market share. They published all the specs for the protocol and even released some source code. If you want people to stay off your server, publishing specs to your protocols and inviting people to use your server is not the way to go about doing it.
"Besider loser in case you've forgotten," while AOL is of course not using this overflow maliciously, the point is that it is one. The other point is that AOL seems to be trying to limit access to its servers to only the clients that it likes. They'll let the Linux client in, but not Yahoo and Microsoft. The point is that if you have a server which you make available to software other than your own, without requiring prior licenses, then you have to make it available to all clients. This is why Microsoft is not "tresspassing" on AOL's property - and believe me, if MS was doing anything illegal, lawsuits would be flying within seconds.
That's a pretty pointless statistic. The average person spends UP TO... in other words, you're talking about the most the "average" person ever does. And no matter what any statistics say I am never going to believe that the average child watches 7 hours/day - that's completely insane.
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Actually, for a while AOL was encouraging people to use its servers, in an attempt to gain market share. They published all the specs for the protocol and even released some source code. If you want people to stay off your server, publishing specs to your protocols and inviting people to use your server is not the way to go about doing it.
"Besider loser in case you've forgotten," while AOL is of course not using this overflow maliciously, the point is that it is one. The other point is that AOL seems to be trying to limit access to its servers to only the clients that it likes. They'll let the Linux client in, but not Yahoo and Microsoft. The point is that if you have a server which you make available to software other than your own, without requiring prior licenses, then you have to make it available to all clients. This is why Microsoft is not "tresspassing" on AOL's property - and believe me, if MS was doing anything illegal, lawsuits would be flying within seconds.
That's a pretty pointless statistic. The average person spends UP TO... in other words, you're talking about the most the "average" person ever does. And no matter what any statistics say I am never going to believe that the average child watches 7 hours/day - that's completely insane.